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This page contains details of conferences, events and seminars either organised and run by SLSA members or of interest to them.

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2025

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Latest  events . . .

SLSA events

Reforming Legal and Policy Responses to Investigating and Prosecuting Sexual Violence, QUB: registration now open

Disability and Rights: The possibilities and limits of rights discourse under neoliberalism, online: registration now open

Law, Drugs, and the Moving Body, Manchester

Other events

Mission Sustainable: Ensuring Earth-Space Human Activities are Sustainable by Default, University of Surrey 

Understanding Miscarriages of Justice at 25, Queen Mary University of London

Minority Languages in Courtrooms the United Kingdom and Ireland, online from University of Aberystwyth and Trinity College Dublin

ERC Advanced Grants Webinar, online from the British Academy

AcSS Annual Lecture given by Professor Mariana Mazzucato, online from the AcSS


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May

Annual McGill Graduate Law Conference: Anatomy of a Crisis

Dates: 8–9 May 2025

Venue: McGill Universeity, Montreal, Canada

See poster for details. For all enquires contact: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

A New Direction in Intellectual Property Treaty-making? Winning against the odds for human rights, equity, and indigenous peoples

Dates: 8–9 May 2025

Venue: School of Law, University of Leeds

See website for details. 

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Journal of Environmental Law Workshop 2025: On 'Greenwashing'

Date: 9 May 2025

Venue: University of Bristol Law School

See website for details.

Who Were the Law-givers? A panel discussion

Date: 9 May 2025

Venue: Wolfson College, Oxford

See announcement for details.

Journal of Environmental Law Workshop 2025: On 'Greenwashing',

Date: 9 May 2025

Venue: University of Bristol

See website for details. Organised by the Centre for Environmental Law and Sustainability.

Mistreating Consent

Date: 12 May 2025

Venue: UCL Faculty of Laws, London and online

See website for details.

Legal Workers Inquiry: Worker writing from across the sector in Britain – book launch

Date: 12 May 2025

Venue: Garden Court Chambers, London

Organised by the Centre for Law and Society in a Global Context, QMUL and  Notes from Below. Hosted by Garden Court Chambers Civil Liberties and Human Rights Law and Employment & Discrimination Law Teams. See website for details.

Indo-China Workshop on Environmental and Climate Law

Dates: 12–13 May 2025

Venue: online from Northumbria Law School

See website for details.

Slavery’s Long Goodbye: A Wilberforce Institute Lecture

Date: 14 May 2025

Venue: Wilberforce Institute, Kingston upon Hull

Speaker: Professor Chris Evans, University of Wales

See website for details.

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Dysfunctional Governance: 'Crisis', 'scandal', 'tragedy', 'emergency'

Dates: 15–16 May 2025

Venue: Centre of Law and Society, Cardiff: call for abstracts

Submissions are invited for this interdisciplinary workshop. See announcement for details.

Birkbeck Law School Annual Law Lecture: 'Theatre of the Upside Down: Performative Chaos and the Law'

Date: 16 May 2025

Venue: Clore Lecture Theatre, Birkbeck University of London

Speaker: Professor Patricia Williams

See website for registration.

Land and Property Beyond the Centenary

Date: 16 May 2025

Venue: online 

Organised by the Open University Legal Histories Cluster. The programme is now available and free registration is open. See website for details. 

Shifting Dynamics in Medical Law: Thinking about movement

Date: 20 May 2025

Venue: online hosted by the Shifting Dynamics in Medical Law Network

Speakers: Dr Anna Macdonald and Prof Marie-Andrée Jacob

See website for details.

Project Fortitude: Mission complete?

Date: 20 May 2025

Venue: online from University of Sheffield Law School

See website for details.

Law and Society Association Graduate Student and Early Career Workshop

Date: 21 May 2025

Venue: Chicago, Illinois, USA

See website for details. 

Mission Sustainable: Ensuring Earth-Space Human Activities are Sustainable by Default

Date: 21 May 2025

Venue: University of Surrey

See website for details.

Asser-CSHR Online Summer Programme 2025: ‘International Sport and Human Rights'

Dates: 21–23 and 26–28 May 2025

Venue: online from the TMC Asser Instituut, The Hague

See announcement for details. Organised by TMC Asser Instituut in collaboration with the Centre for Sport and Human Rights. Registrations are open and a limited number of scholarships are also available.

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Law and Society Association Annual Meeting

Dates: 22–25 May 2025

Venue: Chicago, Illinois, USA

See meeting details. Registration is now open.

Constitutional Supremacy in Southeast Asia: The Case of Malaysia

Date: 23 May 2025

Venue: online from the Global South Network

Guest Lecturer: the Right Honourable the Chief Justice of Malaysia, Tun Tengku Maimun binti Tuan Mat

See announcement for details.

Socio-Legal Annual Lecture by Professor Martti Koskenniemi

Date: 28 May 2025

Venue: Wolfson College, Oxford

See website for details.

Understanding Miscarriages of Justice at 25

Date: 28 May 2025

Venue: Queen Mary University of London

See programme for details.Registration is now open.

The Stories We Tell: Or why can’t we remember the Magdalene Laundries?

Date: 28 May 2025

Venue: Queen's University Belfast

Speaker: Dr Louise Brangan

See website for details.

Personal and Professional Relationships in the Organ Recipient’s Life, a lecture by Professor Leach Scully

Date: 29 May 2025

Venue: online from the University of Bristol

See website for details.

‘What’s Next for Feminism?’ LSExSWIP 2025 Conference in Feminist and Gender Theory papers

Dates: 29–30 May 2025

Venue: LSE, Houghton Street, London 

See website for details. 

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 June

Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking: call for abstracts

Date: 2 June 2025

Venue: online from University of Derby

Registration is free. See announcement for details. 

AcSS Annual Lecture given by Professor Mariana Mazzucato

Date: 3 June 2025

Venue: online from the Academy of Social Sciences

See announcement for details.

5th Annual UK Animal Law Conference

Dates: 4–5 June 2025

Venue: UK Centre for Animal Law and the Animals, Birmingham University

See website for details.

Surrogacy 'Reforms' and Future Reproductive Technologies

Date: 5 June 2025

Venue: University of Greenwich

See website for details.

Conference on Judicial Activism and Resistance in Eastern Europe and Beyond 

Dates: 5–6 June 2025

Venue: Institut d'études européennes, Université libre de Bruxelles

See website for details. 

Law and the Critique of Political Economy: 60th Anniversary of Reading Capital

Date: 6–7 June 2025

Venue: Faculty of Law, Masaryk University, Brno, Czechia

See website for details. 

PLP, Public Law and Technology Conference

Date: 9 June 2025

Venue: Fieldfisher London

See website for details.

Confronting the Housing Crisis: The bold steps needed to deliver affordable homes for all

Date: 9 June 2025

Venue: Prospect Magazine, London, and online

See website for details.

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WG Hart Workshop 2025 Regulating the Global Movement of Care

Dates: 11–12 June 2025

Venue: IALS, Charles Clore House, Russell Square, London

See website and announcement for details. 

Feminist Jurisprudence Discussion Group Annual Workshop

Date: 13 June 2025

Venue: St Hilda's College, Oxford

See announcement for details.

Legal Action Group Housing Law Conference

Date: 13 June 2025

Venue: BPP University, Holborn, London

See website for details.

 Disability and Rights: The possibilities and limits of rights discourse under neoliberalism

Dates: 13–14 June 2025

Venue: online

See registration link for details and to register. This event is supported by the SLSA Seminar Competition and the University of Leicester and organised by the SLSA Disability Law and Social Justice Stream and the Marxism and Disability Network.

Summer Academy for Feminist Legal Studies 2025

Dates: 13–15 June 2025

Venue: University of Hamburg, Germany

See announcement for details.

Summer School: A Terra Usque ad Astra – Heritage, human rights and space law

Dates: 16–22 June 2025

Venue: University of Strathclyde, Glasgow: call for participants

See website for details. Closing date: 18 May 2025.

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Rethinking Gender, Sexuality, and the Law: A Conversation between Feminist Scholars in Postcolonial South Asia and the UK

Dates: 16–17 June 2025

Venue: Centre of Law and Society, Cardiff University

See announcement for details.

ERC Advanced Grants Webinar

Date: 17 June 2025

Venue: online from the British Academy

This webinar for UK-based researchers in the humanities and social sciences interested in applying for European Research Council (ERC) grants. See webpage for details. 

Reforming Legal and Policy Responses to Investigating and Prosecuting Sexual Violence

Dates: 19–20 June 2025

Venue: Queen's University Belfast

Registration for this in-peron event is now open: closing date 9 June 2025. See website for details. This event is supported by the SLSA Seminar Competition.

UK Therapeutic Jurisprudence and Health Conference: Opportunities, challenges and the vulnerabilities of health throughout the life course

Dates: 19–20 June 2025

Venue: University of Manchester

Speakers: Professor Amy T. Campbell, University of Illinois; Dr Nigel Stobbs, Queensland University of Technology; Dr John Stannard, Queen’s University Belfast

See announcement for details.

British Academy Summer Showcase

Dates: 20–21 June 2025

Venue: British Academy, London

See website for details.

Valuation, Space and Power ECR Workshop

Dates: 23–24 June 2025

Venue: University of Sheffield

See announcement for details. 

New Perspectives on Law and Literature

Date: 26 June 2025

Venue: Birkbeck Law School 

See website for details.

Minority Languages in Courtrooms the United Kingdom and Ireland

Date: 27 June 2025

Venue: online from University of Aberystwyth and Trinity College Dublin

See website for details. 

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'Law in Context': Early Career Workshop

Dates: 26–27 June 2025

Venue: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford

See poster and announcement for details. 

The Legal World of Family Migration: call for papers

Date: 27 June 2025

Venue: online from the Universities of Exeter and Bristol

See announcement for details. Call closes: 9 May 2025.

Summer School: Introduction to Experimental Methods in Social Sciences: Surveys, Laboratory and Field Experiments

Dates: 30 June–4 July 2025

Venue: NCRM, University of Southampton

See website for details.

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 July

Workshop: In the Name of National Security: The fragility of human rights

Date: 3 July 2025

Venue: Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales, Madrid

Co-hosted by the Centre for Public Law at the University of Cambridge and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. See announcement for details.

The Impeachment of Warren Hastings: The First Governor General of India

Dates: 3–4 July 2025

Venue: University of Worcester

Speaker: Dame Linda Colley

See website for details.

1885 and its Long Shadow: Sexual offences in historical context: call for papers

Date: 11 July 2025

Venue: online from the Open University

See website for details. Hosted by The Open University Legal Histories Research Cluster and the British Sociological Association Global Histories and Sociology Study Group. Closing date: 16 May 2025.

Behind Closed Books: Money Laundering in UK Insolvency Proceedings

Date: 17 July 2025

Venue: School of Law, University of Leeds

See announcement for details.

2025 Oxford Media Policy Summer Institute: call for applications 

Dates: 28 July–8 August 2025

Venue: Jesus College, Oxford

See website for details. 

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 August

Law, Drugs, and the Moving Body

Date: 25 August 2025

Venue: University of Manchester

See website for details. This event is supported by the SLSA Seminar Competition.

Nordic Law and Gender Conference 2025: Against all odds: call for papers extended

Dates: 28–29 August 2025

Venue: University of Copenhagen

See website for details. Call closes: 15 May 2025.

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September

Critical Legal Conference 2025: 'Surf ‘n’ Turf: Critical Laws of the Land and Sea

Dates: 4–6 September 2025

Venue: University of Exeter

See announcement and website for details. 

Responsible AI in Health Care

Dates: 10–12 September 2025

Venue: Rotterdam, The Netherlands

See announcement for details. 

The Vulnerable Accused in the Criminal Justice System: call for papers

Dates: 10–11 September 2025

Venue: Cardiff University

See announcement for details. Call closes: 2 June 2025.

25 Years of the Human Rights Act

Date: 18 September 2025

Venue: Liberty Building, University of Leeds

See website for details. 

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October

SAFI Annual Conference: call for papers

Date: 9–10 October 2025

Venue: University of Amsterdam

Theme: Reimagining Justice

See announcement and website for details. Call closes: 15 May 2025.

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November

From Binary to Bench: Empowering equal opportunities and AI literacy in global legal education

Date: 5 November 2025

Venue: University of Reading, Whiteknights Campus, and online

See website of details. This is an SLS-funder symposium organised by Dr Melanie Stockton-Brown and Dr Basak Bak. 

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December

Resistance and Agency in the Digital Society: Beyond Literacy, transparency, and risk assessment: call for papers

Date: 15 December 2025

Venue: University of Lausanne,  Switzerland

See announcement for details of the cfp. This event is the Law and Society Initiative (IDES) Annual Conference. Call closes: 20 June 2025.


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